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Autistic social impairment in the siblings of children with pervasive developmental disorders.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Feb 2006
Constantino John N, Lajonchere Clara, Lutz Marin, Gray Teddi, Abbacchi Anna, McKenna Kathleen, Singh Deepti, Todd Richard D
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OBJECTIVE: Sibling recurrence risk in autism has been estimated to be approximately 10%. This study investigated subsyndromal autistic impairments among siblings of probands with pervasive developmental disorders. METHOD: The authors used the Social Responsiveness Scale to obtain quantitative assessments of autistic social impairment in three groups of proband-sibling pairs: 1) autistic children from...
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